Jacobs scores another takeaway with $785M Army training win

Jacobs Engineering Group has won a seven-year, $785 million contract to provide instructors and other training-related services to the Army.

Six bids were submitted to the Army for the contract that covers work at Fort Huachuca in Arizona through to March 14, 2026, the Defense Department said in its Monday awards digest.

A takeaway win for Jacobs, the Huachuca Training and Support Contract is the third recompete stemming from the Army’s current “Warfighter Focus” contract held by Raytheon for broad training, engineering, systems integration and support services to the Army.

Warfighter Focus is set to expire in October of this year and the other two recompetes from that contract have been awarded over the past 12 months.

At the corporate level, Jacobs has been on a broader push to cast itself as a leading government services contractor through moves such as its CH2M Hill acquisition that closed last year and the subsequent divestiture of its former energy segment to gain greater focus on core markets like the public sector.

In her Jan. 28 coverage initiation note, Cowen & Co. equity research analyst Lucy Guo estimated “New Jacobs” to generate about 42 percent of its total sales in the government market.

The trio of takeaway contracts Jacobs secured prior to the Fort Huachuca win should also ramp up in a fiscal year where the company has “below average” recompete risk, wrote Guo, who focuses on government IT and professional services companies.

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